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Show ' Things to Talk About. The Colorado woman fought, fumed and fussed until they got vomohs sufT-criigo sufT-criigo and then as soon as thoy got it, decided they didn't want it. Isn't that just liko u womnn7 It is rumored that the Supremo Court Chief Justice Fuller will retire In afew months nnd that Mr. Taft who is expected ex-pected to succeed him will fill Fullers scat fuller than Fullor. The fashion upholsters havo decreed that tho winter girl must bo "small in the waist, full in tho hips, high-busted nnd broad-shouldered." Architects aro now at work upon tho designs. Somo Massachusetts young women have organized nnd pledged themselves not to marry any young man whoso salary sal-ary Is less than $30 n week. It looks like making matrimony a mere matter o' money. It has been necessary to employ extra guards at tho New Jersey penitentiary to keep women from flirting with tho convicts. It will bo safe however, to contlnuo to believe that tho world would soon go to tho bnd if there wcro no women in it. Professor Burbank, who has succeeded succeed-ed In growing bluo roses, spineless cact tus, seedless apples and various other freaks of plant life, says ho can't obtain ob-tain one seed of horseradish and ho offers of-fers $1,000 for i.n ounce of seed of the horseradish. An Adamlcss Eden in Texas is the wild dream of Mary F. Hadcn, the Chicago Chi-cago novelist, who is arranging to es-tabllsh es-tabllsh n colony of 1,000 women in Refuge Couuty, Texas on tho line of the San Antonio & Arkansas Pass .railway. .rail-way. She has acquired title to 6,000 acres and is now at work on tho plans for her new and unlquo colony. I Harry WoodrufT, star of "Brown of Harvard," n former swoothcart of Anna An-na Gould, is going to mnrry tho Countess Count-ess Castollane. Some years ago WoodrufT Wood-rufT was engaged to Miss Gould, it is said, An arrangement was mado to send him to Harvard university for,' ' n more complete education than ho pos-. sesscd. The Gould fortuno was placed nt his disposal and an agreement executed execu-ted that ho would not mako any at-J tempt to marry tho daughter of Jay I Gould until after ho waa graduate!' ' When Anna Gould met Count Castellan VA'u&r-vCMSMiiUM , -w.iij Many mothers Imagino that their daughter's fortuno is made when sho learns enough to thump on n piano or labors enough to daub a cheap chromo or to work a yellow dog on n door mat. Girlsare too glad to bo spoiled that way; tench them to command a regiment of pots nnd kettles; tench them to make good bread; and to make garments and patch them when they need it, Teach them physicnl development; tench them it is more cruel and less christian for American women to cramp and destroy their lungs, liver nnd stomach, than it Is for tho Hottentots to press their heads flat, or for the Chinese to mako thefr feet Mnnll. Good, healthy and in-dustiious in-dustiious girls make happy homes, good wives and mothers. Next to a man's family nnd happiness happi-ness nothing bhould stand dearer to n man's heart than tho community in which ho lives. It is his home. It is iho piaco in which ho earns his competence compet-ence nnd educates his children. If ho wants to mako it as twpular as possible, ho cannot nlTordto bo inditfercntto any thing that will further theso ends; it can bo said that a town that is not worthy of the devotion of its citizens in making it widely and generously pros-porous pros-porous is n town in which it is not worth any thing to live at nil. If a town Is worth nnyihing it Is worthy of our greatest energy, whether wo merely take our share of dividend in dollnrs and cents or whether we merly tuko jur share of tho common benefits ac corded our home town. Who pnys for tho advertising of mcr .hants and other buisness? Not tho ad- vertiser, for tho cost is returned to him four fold in increased profits. Not the purchaser, for ho buys cheaper there! and has a better assortment nnd fresher foods to select from. Who, then, real-y real-y pays for tho ndvertlsing hllls7 Tho non-advertiser of course. A just proportion pro-portion of tho money ho loses by his ack of initiative or entcrprlsa finds its vny to the printer, to advance the caueo it educntljnnnd tho interests of tho .ommunlty. If you havo never looked at it in that light, it is worth thinking about. If $10 worth of advertising A-ould bring $120 additional profits, you Aould hnvo your advertising free and io $10 ahead of the game besides, .ho non-advertiser who lost tho trade itid profits which you gained would then a bearing your advertising expenso as ,yell us adding to your profits, t i i |